RECOUNT WRITING

TASK: Log into Mathletics or Spellodrome and select the Writing for Fun Tab in Jenny Eather, then click on the RECOUNT button.Work through several examples (click the Year level tabs at the bottom of the screen to find more difficult texts) using the Key Features tab at the right to identify the main structural elements (parts of the text) and also the main language features (type of language used in recount texts).Next, download and save this to your computer and use the highlighter feature to identify and colour code each of the key elements of:STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS (PARTS OF THE TEXT)

Title

Orientation (who, what, where, when, why)

Paragraphs describing events in chronological or time order - each event in the order it happened)

Concluding Comment

LANGUAGE FEATURES OF A RECOUNT

Past tense of verbs (listened, wrote, searched, crept, ran)

Time order connectives within sentences and between paragraphs (at the start, to begin with, next, later, after that, first, finally, meanwhile)

personalised details - what you actually did

descriptive language (adjectives, adverbs)

First person pronouns (I, my, our, we ...) - shows you who is writing the text - the person actually experiencing the events.